Talk:Terraced house

Hi everybody! Townhouse is a duplicate of this article, Terraced house. If you read the two articles, everything stated in Townhouse is also stated here. Wikipedia shouldn't have two articles about the same thing. These articles should be merged somehow. Your thoughts, please:

1. Merge Townhouse to Terraced house (I tried to do this boldly but was reverted and told to "expect opposition," so I'm guessing there may not be consensus for this one.)
2. Merge Terraced house to Townhouse – The google results seem to support this (40M for "terraced house" w/ or w/o quotes v. 200M for townhouse)
3. Merge both Terraced house and Townhouse to Single-family attached (as opposed to Single-family detached or Multi-family residential), which is the generic name for the category of building types that is neither a single-family detached nor a multi-family, and includes Terraced houses, Townhouses, Rowhouses, Semi-detached houses, Duplex, Townhomes and probably others.

Thank you in advance! Levivich (talk) 02:05, 18 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Levivich I think a merge is good idea. Another article that seems to be aboput the same concept is Tenement. Go ahead and propose a merge, perhaps of terraced house to townhouse? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:42, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the quick reply   I'm not going to propose a merge, though Townhouse and Terraced house are still two of the clearest examples of WP:FORK I've ever seen. The two titles are just engvars, and to make things more complicated, "townhouse" means different things in different parts of the US. (FWIW, I think tenement housing is something different altogether from townhouse/terraced house.) But what these articles lack is good sources. I imagine there must be some architecture textbooks that cover these topics. (I notice we also have shopping center and shopping mall... I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of these forks.) Levivich (talk) 06:37, 3 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Quote: "The term terrace was borrowed from garden terraces by British architects of the late Georgian period to describe streets of houses whose uniform fronts and uniform height created an ensemble that was more stylish than a "row"."

Three questions:

• Where's the terrace?
• How do uniform fronts and heights create "a stylish ensemble"?
• How are terraced houses more stylish than row houses, when the two terms are used synonymously earlier in the article?

Thank you, Maikel (talk) 20:11, 14 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

These are the exact same questions that arose in my mind, in the same order. Overall, I think this article and its clone at Townhouse are a mess of conflicting definitions and opinions. I'd be ecstatic to see someone who knows the answers to these questions clean these articles up. 80.220.64.145 (talk) 05:19, 10 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure if this is an issue or not, but I have always seen "by-laws" spelled the way I just spelled it. Is "byelaws" or any derivation of this correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by VN WIKI EDITS (talk • contribs) 21:25, 13 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

There are more and more terraced housing developments in Spain, Czechia and Poland, with the middle class often prefering them to apartments. There are whole new blocks of terraced houses in Algeciras. 78.90.63.158 (talk) 09:22, 3 December 2021 (UTC)Reply